Romans 9
1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Ao Iseraele, batho ba me! Ao, bakaulengwe ba me ba Sejuta! Ke eletsa thata jang gore lo tle mo go Keresete. Pelo ya me e tshwenyegile ebile ke hutsahala mo go botlhoko thata bosigo le motshegare ka ntlha ya lona. Keresete o a itse le Mowa O O Boitshepo o itse gore ga ke ake fa ke re ke eletsa go atlholelwa loso lwa bosakhutleng fa e le gore go ka lo boloka.
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Modimo o lo neetse mo go golo, mme lo santse lo sa o dumele. O lo tsere jaaka batho ba one ba ba itshenketsweng, jalo wa lo etelela pele ka leru le le phatshimang la kgalalelo wa bo wa lo bolelela ka fa o batlang go lo segofatsa ka teng. O lo neetse melao ya one ya botshelo jwa malatsi otlhe gore lo itse se o batlang lo se dira. O lo neile tshwanelo ya go mo obamela, wa ba wa lo naya ditsholofetso tse dikgolo.
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
Borraeno e ne e le badiredi ba bagolo ba Modimo, le Keresete e ne e le mongwe wa lona, e le Mojuta ka fa tlholegong ya gagwe, ene yo jaanong a busang dilo tsotlhe. A go bakwe Modimo ka bosakhutleng! (aiōn g165)
6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
Jalo he, a Modimo ga o a kgona go diragatsa ditsholofetso tsa one mo Bajuteng? Nnyaa! (Gonne ditsholofetso tse ke tsa ba e leng Bajuta tota). Mme ga se gore mongwe le mongwe yo o tsaletsweng mo go ba ntlo ya Sejuta ke Mojuta wa boammaaruri!
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
Lebaka la gore ba tswa mo go Aberahame ga le ba dire bana ba ga Aberahame tota. Gonne Dikwalo tsa re ditsholofetso tse ke tsa ga morwa Aberahame ebong Isake le losika lwa gagawe, le fa Aberahame a ne a na le bana ba bangwe gape!
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Mo ga go reye gore bana botlhe ba ga Aberahame ke ba Modimo, fa e se fela ba ba dumelang tsholofetso ya poloko e o e solofeditseng Aberahame.
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
Gonne Modimo o ne o solofeditse wa re, “Mo ngwageng e e tlang wena le Sara ke tlaa lo naya ngwana wa mosimane.”
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Mme morago ga dingwaga, fa morwawe, Isake, a setse a godile ebile a nyetse, le Rebeka mosadi wa gagwe a tlaa tloga a mo tsholela mawelana, Modimo o ne wa raya Rebeka wa re, Esawe ngwana yo o tlaa tsalwang pele, o tlaa nna motlhanka wa ga Jakoba, lewelana la gagwe.
11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Jaaka mafoko a lokwalo a re, “Ke tlhophile go segofatsa Jakoba, mme e seng Esawe.”
12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Mme Modimo o ne wa bua jaana pele ga bana ba tsholwa, pele ga ba dira se se molemo kgotsa se se bosula.
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Se se supa gore Modimo o ne wa dira se o neng o se ikaeletse go tsweng kwa tshimologong; e ne e se ka ntlha ya se bana ba se dirileng mme e ne e le ka ntlha ya se Modimo o se batlileng wa se itlhophela.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
A Modimo o ne o sa kgetholole? Nnyaa ga go a nna jalo.
15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Gonne Modimo o ne o reile Moshe wa re, “Fa ke batla go nna pelonomi mo go mongwe, ke tlaa dira jalo. Gape ke tlaa utlwela botlhoko le fa e le mang yo ke batlang go mo utlwela botlhoko.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Jalo he, masego a Modimo ga a bonwe ka ntlha ya gore motho mongwe o ikaelela go nna nao kgotsa ka ntlha ya gore o dira thata gore a nne nao. A bonwa ke ba Modimo o ba tlhomogelang pelo.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Farwe, Kgosi ya Egepeto, e ne e le sekai sa boammaaruri jo. Gonne Modimo o ne wa mmolelela gore o mo neetse bogosi jwa Egepeto ka maikaelelo a go supa nonofo ya one e e boitshegang ka ene: gore lefatshe lotlhe le tle le utlwe kaga leina la Modimo le le galalelang.
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Jalo a lo a lemoga, Modimo o siametse bangwe, fela ka gore o batla go ba siamela, gape o dira gore ba bangwe ba gane go reetsa.
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Jaanong ke eng fa Modimo o ba bona molato wa go tlhoka go reetsa? A ga baa dira se o dirileng gore ba se dire?
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Nnyaa, se rialo. O mang wena yo o tshwa-yang Modimo diphoso? A selo se se dirilweng se ka raya yo o se dirileng sa re, “Ke eng fa o ntirile jaana?”
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Fa mmopi wa dinkgwana a bopa nkgwana ka mmopa, a ga a na tshwanelo ya go dirisa lone lekwete leo fela la mmopa go dira nkgwana e nngwe ntle, gore e dirisiwe mo go tlhomeng dithunya, mme e nngwe e dirisiwe go latlhela matlakala mo teng?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
A Modimo ga o na tshwanelo e e itekane-tseng go supa bogale jwa one le nonofo mo go ba ba tshwanetseng go senngwa, ba o ntseng o le pelotelele mo go bone mo nakong e yotlhe?
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
Gape o na le tshwanelo ya go tshola bangwe fela jaaka rona, ba re diretsweng go tshola dikhumo tsa one tsa kgalalelo, le fa re ka ne re le Bajuta kgotsa Badichaba, le go re siamela gore mongwe le mongwe a kgone go bona ka fa kgalalelo ya one e leng kgolo thata ka teng.
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
Gakologelwang se seporofeto sa ga Hosea se se buang? Teng mo go Hosea Modimo wa re o tlaa itshenkela bana ba bangwe (ba ba sa tsweng mo lwapeng lwa one lwa Sejuta), o ba rate, le fa ope a ise a ke a ba rate.
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Mme baheitane, ba ka bone go kileng ga twe, “Ga lo batho ba me, ba tlaa bidiwa bana ba Modimo o o tshelang.”
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
Isaia moporofiti o ne a goeletsa kaga Bajuta a re, “Le fa ba ka ne ba le didikadike, ke palonyana fela e e seng kae e e bolokwang.
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
Gonne Morena o tlaa diragatsa katlholo ya gagwe mo lefatsheng, ka bofefo a khutlisa ditiro tsa gagwe, a di khutshwafatsa ka bomolemo.”
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Mme ke jaaka Isaia a rile, “Fela fa e ne e se ka kutlwelobotlhoko ya Modimo Bajuta botlhe ba ne ba tlaa nyelela.”
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
Jaanong he, re tlaa reng kaga dilo tse? Re tlaa bua jaana re re, “Modimo o neetse Badichaba sebaka sa go gololwa ka tumelo, le fa tota ba ne ba ntse ba sa batle Modimo ka tlhwaafalo.
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Mme Bajuta, ba ba neng ba leka ka thata yotlhe go siama mo Modimong ka go tshegetsa melao ya one, ga ba a ka ba bona poloko.
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Ke ka ntlha yang? Ke ka ntlha ya gore ba ne ba leka go bolokwa ka go tshegetsa molao le go itshiamisa ka bo bone mo boemong jwa go ikaega mo tumelong. Ba kgopilwe ke lentswe le legolo le le kgopang.
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Modimo o ba tlhagisitse ka se mo Dikwalong fa o re, ‘Ke beile Lefika mo tseleng ya Bajuta, mme ba le bantsi ba tlaa kgotswa mo go lone, ebong Jesu. Ba ba dumelang mo go ene ga ba kitla ba tlhajwa ke ditlhong.’”
